How Australia's #NBN compares to Singapore and NZ.

Executives from Singapore and New Zealand have arrived in Sydney to detail to the Australian industry how their own national broadband networks are comparing to Australia's. For starters, both projects are substantially cheaper, albeit for land masses much smaller in size, with lower populations. In New Zealand's instance, the rollout is a public-private partnership that is only being rolled out to 75 percent of the New Zealand population at a much lower cost to the government, according to John Greenhough, CTO of New Zealand's version of NBN Co, Crown Fibre NZ. "New Zealand didn't have $42 billion ... so the government set some constraints around this at NZ$1.3 billion (sic)," he said. NBN Co's original forecast for the cost of the National Broadband Network (NBN) was AU$42 billion; however, this has since been revised to AU$37.4 billion of capital investment in the netwo...